I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.
Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.
I didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage.
I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.
If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.
I always loved television. I always loved movies.
We are the movies and the movies are us.
It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.
My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen t...
Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.
People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.
I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.
I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear; I can't lie.
With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
When I was a child, I thought I was going to be a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs. I loved monster movies and sci-fi, and then 'Star Wars' came out, and I was completely out of my mind with that, with 'Close Encounters,' and then I thought m...
I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.
Your mind can do wonders, so scary movies are not the healthiest for me because it does freak me out.
Movies are movies, television is television.
I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not me at all.
